Life of Andrew Hull Foote, Rear-admiral United States Navy: With a Portrait and IllustrationsHarper, 1874 - 411 páginas |
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... West Point proved a stepping - stone to his darling plan . He remained at the Military Academy of West Point but a few months - say from June to December - and in the latter part of the year 1822 , at the age of sixteen , he was ...
... West Point proved a stepping - stone to his darling plan . He remained at the Military Academy of West Point but a few months - say from June to December - and in the latter part of the year 1822 , at the age of sixteen , he was ...
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... West India Islands . He thus entered at once upon the arduous duties of his profession . He was thrust into the " rough and ready " school of the older naval service ; not passing through a preparatory academic training on shore , which ...
... West India Islands . He thus entered at once upon the arduous duties of his profession . He was thrust into the " rough and ready " school of the older naval service ; not passing through a preparatory academic training on shore , which ...
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... West India seas to prey upon Spanish commerce . The unquiet spirits of all countries resorted to them . Issuing from their strongholds the island of Tortuga , on the west coast of St. Do- mingo , and Port Royal , in Jamaica - they ...
... West India seas to prey upon Spanish commerce . The unquiet spirits of all countries resorted to them . Issuing from their strongholds the island of Tortuga , on the west coast of St. Do- mingo , and Port Royal , in Jamaica - they ...
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... West Indies for a brief cruise , first in the Natchez and afterward in the Hornet , to which he was transferred October 8 , 1827. He had set his heart upon making a cruise with the Mediterranean squadron , for which station he ap- plied ...
... West Indies for a brief cruise , first in the Natchez and afterward in the Hornet , to which he was transferred October 8 , 1827. He had set his heart upon making a cruise with the Mediterranean squadron , for which station he ap- plied ...
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... West India voyage . After he had been at sea some six weeks or two months , his mother received a letter from him , in which are these words : " You may discharge your mind from anxiety about your wayward son . " The letter then went on ...
... West India voyage . After he had been at sea some six weeks or two months , his mother received a letter from him , in which are these words : " You may discharge your mind from anxiety about your wayward son . " The letter then went on ...
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A. H. FOOTE Admiral Foote Africa ANDREW HULL FOOTE Army attack Barrier Forts batteries battle battle of Belmont BENTON boats Bureau of Equipment Cairo Captain capture Carondelet Cincinnati Clarksville Cloth coast Columbus Commander Foote Commodore Commodore Foote Conestoga crew cruise Cumberland DEAR Department Donelson duty enemy feel fight fire Flag-Officer FLAG-STEAMER fleet flotilla Foote's Fort Donelson Fort Henry Fort Pillow Gideon give gun-boats guns Halleck heavy Henry honor hope hundred iron-clad Island Joseph Smith land letter Lexington Lieutenant Foote Lieutenant-Commanding Louis Madrid Memphis miles Mississippi morning mortar-boats mortars Mound City Naval Forces Navy Yard night obedient servant officers Perry Phelps Pillow Pittsburg Pope port Portsmouth rams ready rebel received respectfully sailed sailors Secretary sent shells ship shore shot slaver soon squadron steamer Stembel stream Tennessee River thing tion troops vessels vols Washington West Western flotilla Western Waters wounded